Originally posted 2005-04-26 19:45:00. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe AP reports that Apple has responded to a new book about Steve Jobs entitled iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business by yanking all the books by the publisher, John Wiley & Sons, off the shelves of its Apple stores. MacWorld […]
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Originally posted 2005-01-12 17:44:00. Republished by Blog Post PromoterPopular music individual Kid Rock has prevailed in the Sixth Circuit appeal of a District Court ruling dismissing the lawsuit against him that sought to prevent him from using the “Top Dog” trademark. The Circuit Court agreed that the plaintiff, a former business partner, had abandoned the mark […]
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Originally posted 2013-10-01 13:37:54. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe New York State Bar Association’s Bright Ideas journal (Vol. 22, No. 2) 17 (Fall 2013) has just published my essay about shield laws entitled, Bloggers, Journalists, Reporting and Privilege. And now you can read it. [ This is the article as it was republished in the New York State […]
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Originally posted 2012-07-09 13:55:36. Republished by Blog Post PromoterPatently-O: If you are not satisfied reading this free version of Patently-O, you can now get the same content through LexisNexis for a fee. Hey, wait a minute. There’s a catch, right? Yeah — Lexis is stripping the user comments. Hm — vindication?
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Originally posted 2014-11-17 17:55:38. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe NFL is a lot of things, but I never thought it was stupid. It turns out that it isn’t. The Sports Blog reports: Remember that stupid effort by the NFL to trademark the phrase “Big Game,” even though everyone knows the phrase has, for more than […]
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Originally posted 2015-06-19 15:13:45. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe approved and publishable amicus briefs in the appeal regarding the trademark registration of THE SLANTS are trickling in. Certainly interesting to see who is saying what. So far, they all seem to be on the side of The Slants, though interestingly the INTA amicus brief does not […]
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Originally posted 2006-12-01 16:51:18. Republished by Blog Post PromoterMichael Atkins debuts his Seattle Trademark Lawyer blog with a nice post about a ruling denying insurance coverage to a retailer that has to go into its pocket to destroy counterfeit merchandise. (NB to Trademark lawyers and those who play them on TV: Are you advising your […]
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Originally posted 2014-10-06 09:52:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter I’m biased in reviewing the 6th edition of the only comprehensive single-volume — Well, there you go. Bias number one: As far as I can tell, Siegrun Kane’s Kane on Trademark Law: A Practitioner’s Guide is the definitive comprehensive single volume on trademark practice. I have […]
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Originally posted 2011-12-07 18:16:59. Republished by Blog Post PromoterDiscussing trademark law blogging with a colleague last night, I was asked whether I’d written anything about the EAT MORE KALE story. In order to excuse my laziness, I said, well, these low-hanging-fruit items that everyone is busy with, why, I let everyone else opine on them, […]
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Originally posted 2011-05-23 16:57:09. Republished by Blog Post PromoterIt had to happen — another piece of territory now being rented out in the Lanham-Act-as-competition-buster industry: A new service has announced that it will scoop up the Google infringements for ya for a few kopeks. Their proud slogan: “Online trademark infringement is the act of using […]
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Originally posted 2013-08-05 13:37:42. Republished by Blog Post PromoterHow much dumb can possibly be fit into a size two? Walter Olson rounds it up: Ralph Lauren lawyers: don’t you dare reproduce our skinny-model photo in the course of criticizing our use of skinny models [BoingBoing] With photoshop, evidently, quite a bit! Here’s an excerpt from […]
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Originally posted 2014-12-09 11:06:44. Republished by Blog Post PromoterMcDermott Will & Emery has published an article on the Mondaq website (registration required) about a Seventh Circuit decision in which a losing party was required to pay the plaintiff’s attorneys’ fees because of gross misbehavior during the litigation. According to the piece, and confirmed by this […]
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Originally posted 2020-08-12 17:06:43. Republished by Blog Post Promoter At least I hope so. Here are two briefs I filed on behalf of four fireworks companies in New York that have been put out of business under the rubric of the ‘rona, but more likely because they didn’t play ball in Albany. The moving brief […]
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